I just want to point out that Windows bundling Internet Explorer for free was a blatant violation of antitrust law that Microsoft should’ve gotten broken up for, since the other replies didn’t mention it.

I don’t remember having the choice of 15-bit. I only remember having the choice of “256” (8-bit indexed palette), “thousands” (16-bit “high color,” with 5:6:5 bits per channel for RGB respectively), or “millions” (24-bit, 8 bits per channel).

The real reason why the nuclear apocalypse happened hasn’t been explained in any of the Fallout media yet, but it feels like the show is going to reveal it at some point if it didn’t already.

Considering all the “experimental” Vaults and whatnot, and how politically powerful Vault-Tec appeared to be, the vibe I get is that there might have been some sort of conspiracy.

I actually remember the Solitaire card back images being dithered because I had the resolution turned up (and thus the color depth turned down).

Iran used to respect things like freedom of navigation and territorial waters, but then Trump went and attacked them anyway. If rules aren’t going to be respected by their enemies, they have nothing to lose by exerting their power.

That’s why Trump’s attack was so incredibly fucking stupid.

That’s true, dinosaurs don’t have buttholes.

It can be two things!

This is “you are an absolute fool for planting that second cucumber plant” month.

Data centers forcing grid upgrades is all the more reason their rates should be higher. They should be paying 100% of those capital upgrade costs, too!

Isn’t a kwh the same price for everyone?

Perversely, no. Large industrial users often get a bulk rate that’s cheaper than the household rate.

Happy cake day, BTW.

I mean, “bunker” gets the idea across, but it’s kinda underselling it. Ellison and Zuckerberg own nearly the entire island of Kauai, HI between them – the whole island is the bunker, with a 72-mile-wide moat between it and most of Hawaii’s population.

Either that or they were subconsciously erring on the side of not seeming alarmist.

They are doing something about it: they’re building bunkers, killbots, and a totalitarian panopticon.

The question is, what are we doing to defend ourselves?

No they don’t. Lots of (D)s, and even the occasional (I) like Bernie Sanders, are less authoritarian than pretty much every single (R) is these days.

If they want less authoritarianism, yes!

Or better yet, somebody who calls themselves “socialist” or “progressive,” because at least they tend to be decent on civil rights, if not necessarily stuff like economic policy. It’s ridiculous, but Bernie Sanders is one of the most actually-libertarian people in Congress.

If some of the “progressives” could give up on some of their overly-bureaucratic ideas with excessive means-testing (like welfare instead of UBI, “affordable” [i.e. “subsidized”] housing instead of zoning reform to reduce costs, etc.) they’d be perfect actual-libertarian candidates.

I’ve been saying it’s imminent for a while now, because I’ve been seeing studies about this come out for years and it seems like every one revises the estimate to be earlier.

Every US taxpayer invested in this, involuntarily.

You say “wild west” as if they were doing something uncivilized, but running the code you choose is nothing more than exercising your property rights.

The marginalization/destruction of custom ROMs isn’t civilization catching up, it’s totalitarianism closing in.

“It’s accepted fact in wide swathes of the population” who still mostly didn’t do anything to change their behavior in response. What’s the difference between a climate change denier who refuses to reduce driving and a climate change acknowledger who refuses to reduce driving? Practically speaking, not much!

Or better yet, skip threatening and act against them.